Homework Help: physics

Posted by sophie on Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 7:01pm.

Shaking a towel up and down would create what type of wave in the towel?
A. Transverse <---answer (I think)
B. longitudinal
C. surface

For the medium to remain undisturbed as two pulses pass the same point, they must have
A. equal amplitudes
B. opposite amplitudes
C. different amplitudes
D. both a and b
I think it is D, but not really sure

physics - bobpursley, Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 7:05pm
you are correct on both.
physics - sophie, Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 7:26pm
thanks

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